Quite a character

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Oh God, I don’t know! It’s probably material — it all depends on how sharp that is.

You must be a keen observer of behavioural quirks . . .

You have to do that, for sure. I grew up in an old apartment house in a blue-collar neighbourhood in Detroit and it was filled with all kinds of people: old, young, married, divorced, radical, apolitical, conservative. I would go from apartment to apartment and hang out with them. You’d see people fighting, happy, graceless. That big mixture of humanity was very influential.